Sigmund Freud
After graduating from the gymnasium with honors at the age of 17, Sigmund planned to pursue a military or political career, but due to anti-Semitic sentiments and material difficulties, he had to abandon these intentions. After long deliberations, in 1873 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Vienna. He did not feel the slightest interest in medicine, and later he often admitted and wrote: "I felt no inclination towards the study of medicine and the profession of a doctor," and in his later years he even said that he never felt "at ease" in medicine and never really considered himself a real doctor[22][23].
In March 1876, under the close supervision of Professor Carl Claus, he studied the sexual life of eels, examining the presence of testes in males. This was his first scientific work. During his studies, he focused most on physiology. In 1881, he passed graduation exams with honors and received the qualification of doctor.
In 1882, he began medical practice. His scientific interests led him to the main hospital in Vienna, where he began research at the Institute of Cerebral Anatomy. In the early 1880s, he became close to Josef Breuer and Jean-Martin Charcot, who significantly influenced Freud's choice of direction in scientific activity[24]. In 1884, he invented a method for staining nerve pathways with gold chloride, but it was deemed imperfect.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Primary online consultation 20 minutes
A test consultation is the first online meeting or initial consultation. We made it free so that clients of iPsycholog have the opportunity to try and understand from personal experience how the psychologist works and what results can be achieved after the consultation.
And the results will definitely be there because Positive Psychotherapy (the method in which our specialists work) assumes that addressing the client's request and diagnosing the causes of life imbalance occurs within 20 minutes, with the remaining consultation time used for techniques and tools. By learning them you will, firstly, cope with the arising situation and secondly, be ready for any life circumstances.
As a rule, a few consultations are enough to solve the problems the client has addressed and to teach them self-help skills. But there can be situations that require a longer time; in this case, your psychologist will create an individual consultation program for you: discussing the necessary quantity, duration, frequency, and individual payment terms.
Individual online consultation 50 minutes (~ 50 Euro)
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The consultation is conducted online in the client's personal account and lasts 50 minutes. By agreement with the client, it can be conducted in video, audio, or text format. What does the counseling process imply? It is aimed at mobilizing a person's internal resources to make positive decisions in any, even the most challenging life situations.
It's simple – the therapist is by your side, attentive and patient, always adhering to rules and boundaries. Want to cry – cry, the main thing is to speak through tears and breathe, want to be angry – that's your right! The therapist will always listen, accept you in any state, and can understand all the client's deep feelings. The therapist observes the client's psycho-emotional state, behavior, and helps express emotions, experiences, psychosomatic manifestations.
At the moment the client is ready to listen, perceive, and understand what is heard, the psychotherapist offers hypotheses and interpretations of the client's behavior. All discussions take place solely in a kind manner and only when the client is ready to hear sometimes painful facts for themselves – only this way can their self-esteem not be harmed, and their pride and feelings not be hurt.
By analyzing the client's behavior, the psychotherapist forms a connection between the present and the past, draws parallels, traces patterns, and establishes a dependency between the client's childhood and adult life. As a result, a strategy for resolving the situation is formed, based on all the psychotherapist's observations and taking into account the client's peculiarities.
The psychotherapist is always ready to hear and accept the client in all their states, but only 20% of the result is within the psychotherapist's responsibility zone, the remaining 80% is the client's daily and meticulous work, with love and care, on the most precious thing – their «Self».
Nossrat Peseschkian, the founder of the method of positive psychotherapy, wrote that a person is a mine full of precious stones. One of the tasks is to find the hidden valuable treasure, raise it from the depths of the human soul, and show the world by using natural abilities and talents, which ultimately leads to the person's self-realization.
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